The second IC notes "Group of stars, not a nebula (DeLisle Stewart)". Apparent size about 0.8 by 0.6 arcmin.

This is the southern of two very faint galaxies, separated by less than an arcmin (the other is listed below as "NGC 7658A"). Although both galaxies' magnitudes round off to the same 14th-magnitude value, this one is half a magnitude brighter and much easier to see, and since Herschel made no mention of a "double" nucleus or nebula, there is little doubt that he saw only this galaxy, and it should be listed as NGC 7658. However, some catalogs list it as NGC 7658B, as though its companion deserves pride of place, and as a result, Wikisky does the same. Apparent size about 0.8 by 0.3 arcmin.

Per Dreyer, NGC 7662 (= John Herschel's GC 4964, 1860 RA 23 19 11, NPD 48 14.0) is "a magnificent object, planetary or annular nebula, very bright, pretty small, round, blue". The second IC adds "The nucleus is variable to the extent of three magnitudes, with a period of 27 1/3 days (Barnard, M.N. lxviii. p. 465)".
     NGC 7662 is 5 to 6 thousand light years away, and 50 to 60 thousand AUs across (its size being as uncertain as its distance). The central, bright portion of the nebula is about 0.6 arcmin across, but a fainter outer halo covers more than 2 arcmin. The nebula's central star is a relatively young, very hot white dwarf (about 75,000 Kelvins, or 135,000 Fahrenheit degrees). In small telescopes it appears to be a nearly starlike, slightly fuzzy 8th magnitude object. In a dark sky, 6 inch or larger telescopes reveal a slightly bluish gray ball (hence its name). The NOAO image below was taken with a 16-inch telescope equipped with a CCD camera. Its colors, though exaggerated, are more or less "true". The false-color HST images of the planetary nebula, aside from showing more detail within the nebula, reveal so-called "fliers", unusually dense outlying blobs of gas which were apparently ejected by the star before the formation of the central nebula.

Apparent size about 0.6 by 0.45 arcmin. Also shown in wide-field image of NGC 7674. Occasionally miscatalogued as that galaxy.

Based on a recessional velocity of 3490 km/sec, NGC 7678 is about 160 million light years away, in good agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of 115 to 165 million light years. Given that and its apparent size of 2.15 by 1.65 arcmin, it is about 100 thousand light years across.

Apparent size about 1.9 by 1.9 arcmin. (Steinicke notes, accompanied by PGC 3088959, a 15th-magnitude compact galaxy (type C, apparent size 0.2 by 0.2 arcmin) just northwest of NGC 7680, at RA 23 28 31.5, Dec +32 25 22; but Herschel wouldn't have noticed such an object, so any connection between the two has no historical significance.)